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PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:49 pm 
does anyone know if there is any pattern on how fast entrenchments are built? i have had large high quality units with no fatigue with leaders take much longer than a small unit with no leader in many cases.

Larenzo R. Brown Fld Lt 4th Bde/3rd "Virginia" Cavalry Division/Jackson's Corps/ANV
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:06 pm 
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Each scenerio of every game has its own probability of making breastworks that can be found in the parameter data, which is listed as a percentage by turn. And to my knowledge, breastwork construction is not dependent on a regiment's size or fatique status, it just must be in good order.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:46 am 
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Brads right.

And what's interesting is a regiment reduced to one man could build breastworks and later those same breastworks could provide protection for an entire 1000 man unit.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:30 am 
This is just silly... there should really be some correlation between unit size and ability to build breastworks... it's just common sense...

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For breastworks construction, I always tought that the size of the breastworks constructed is always to cover the entire hexside. If you assign 50 men to do the work, it should take longer than if you assign 500 men to fortify the hexside.

In Campaign Corinth, the parameter data say Breastworks Construction: 18%

In my calculation is good, it would take in average 5 or 6 turns for 500 men to construct the breastworks.

I made two tests using the Corinth scenario, I ordered my men to build breastworks in 14 hexes,here's the results:

Men assigned/#turns test 1/ #turns test 2
996 men / 1 t / 3 t
961 men / 1 t / 2 t
837 men / 3 t / 3 t
755 men / 1 t / 3 t
747 men / 2 t / 1 t
583 men / 6 t / 8 t
520 men / 2 t / 1 t
520 men / 10 t / 16 t
420 men / 5 t / 15 t
325 men / 15 t / 5 t
310 men / 4 t / 9 t
215 men / 10 t / 8 t
65 men / 14 t / not built after 20 turns
50 men / not built after 20 t / 13 t


As you can see, the results seems to confirm that.


Fld. Lt. Harold Lajoie 3/2/I/AoM, CSA.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:48 am 
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Thanks for running the test, Harold. It confirms my own subjective impression that it takes smaller units significantly longer to build breastworks than larger ones.

BTW, any relation to the baseball great?

Lt. Gen. Matt Perrenod
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Lt. Gen. Perrenod, Sir

I'm not sure if I'm related to Napoléon Lajoie, but there is probably a link at the base of the genealogical tree.
He was born in Rhode Island, so there is a very good chance that his family emigrated from Canada. I don't know if he was bilingual, if anybody find something about this, please send a note.



Fld. Lt. Harold Lajoie 3/2/I/AoM, CSA.


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Nap Lajoie was born in Woonsocket, R.I., on September 5, 1875. His father was "a coal man" and a French-Canadian from Montreal. Lajoie had five brothers and two sisters, and his father died when he was five years old. He first played for the Fall River entry in the old New England Baseball League.

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